Social : Helen was arrested

It was sharp 12:30 PM when Helen's show started in a big garden close to the Art Center part of the Yarra where a big Skate Park thrills the ground with very dangerous acts of many young urban and suburban kids.

The initial effects of show was nothing like before; neither this nor this could even match to the new one! Music, dance, enthusiasm, smell, animals and Helen's and her crews most exotic costumes....My words would not suffice to describe the beginning of the show. It depicted choreography of professional theater shows. Frankly, I wasn't even got so much excited in the openings of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musicals to this extent.

With her collaborative crew consisting of young women and men of early twenties in various colours and shapes with beautiful smiles showing their attractive shiny white teeth, the additional items for this new show were over a dozen of most gorgeous animals representing Australian wild life. As soon as I saw a dingo type dog in the location where one of Helen's crew placed, I walked that way to be close to that beautiful creature which reminded me of my most wonderful Dingo-German Sheppard bred dog dramatically died a decade ago; whom still lives in my heart.

Helen said all these wild animals are fine to be petted which was a great award to me. I love touching animals like kangaroos, dingoes, wombats, tassie devils, even koalas who may scratch us. However am I a little hesitant to touch large snakes, fat lizards hunted for food by our aboriginal friends and crocodiles for unknown reasons.

Helen started her show saying "life is a game! an enjoyable game for me...you will understand what I mean when...." Whilst I was listening to her well articulated speech, I told Bruce to take off our lunches from his brown syntactic backpack. Bruce was not into animals as much as I was. I sat next to the the dingo and started touching his head, ears and eyes softly as I used to do my beautiful dog. What a wonderful communication we were having; this interaction was so meditative to me. This beautiful creature was exactly the same light-shiny brown colour with my dog who died.

I was feeling a bit hungry; so opened my chicken kebab in a pita bread wrap and noticed that Bruce finished half of his meat pie. The dog started licking my face so affectionately. As soon as I had a bite from my lunch, this beautiful dingo started smelling and licking it. Obviously he was very hungry, some saliva was coming out of his beautiful pinkish mouth and long going down through black whiskers. I gave him one bite and he immediately swallowed it; perhaps only 2 or 3 chews. Then offered second and third bite....

My ears and my occasional glance were on Helen who was approximately 10 meters away still presenting. Then suddenly this hungry dingo took my whole lunch and greedily ate it rapidly with a very wild look on his face. It was certainly feeling shame or even guilt but his natural instincts for hunger was obviously stronger than his morale values. I had no hard feelings for it; let it be so!

Bruce immediately noticed another loss of my Friday lunch. He paid me a very cynical look as his look suddenly changed to a different type when two tall and chubby (formally dressed) men approached Helen and showed their IDs with serious looks.

We were unable to hear what they were talking about. One minute later Helen said "don't worry, you keep enjoying yourself, my friends will continue the show; I will be back soon..." The two men were taking Helen towards the city side to a black coloured Nissan car. Bruce (Helen's dad) was in shock when I asked him what happened. A crew member was reading an emotional poem until Helen disappeared from our visibility in that black car.

Then one of the crew members said: "Helen was arrested. She did not want you to know this until she left. She also does not want you to know the reason as yet but she will certainly explain it in the next show". I was totally confused and thrilled! The atmosphere of the show changed dramatically....The whole crowd was like one single entity with disguised deep concern! There was a new kind of music and some spicy smells were spreading...

Everything was still in perfect harmony from organisation point of view. There was certainly a logic around the whole thing. The show continued, the animals were well looked after and another very generous collection for wild life rescue happened. Yes, I had to satisfy my hunger during the afternoon tea around 3:30 pm with some nuts, Vegemite sandwich and a cup of black tea.

I called Bruce last night but couldn't get through; tried to call him this morning again but he was in shower. Then he called me back and left a message to my message bank when I was picking up my son from the Saturday language school. Bruce was saying that he would tell me a good news in two hours time as he was driving then too. I couldn't wait and did not want to delay my post another two hours; I had to take this another eventful Friday lunch out of my chest....To be continued....

Regards,
Mehmet Yildiz